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type: "Bill"
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title: "Continuation schools and classes: youth workforce development programs."
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description: "Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to fix the length of the schoolday for grades and classes of the schools maintained by the school district, subject to certain conditions and requirements. Under existing law, in continuation high schools and continuation education classes, a day of attendance is 180 minutes of attendance and a pupil is prohibited from being credited with more than 15 hours of attendance per school week, proportionately reduced for those school weeks having weekday holidays on which classes are not held."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 542"
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citation: "California AB 542 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Continuationschoolsandclasses", "youthworkforcedevelopmentprograms"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Celeste Rodriguez"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 29
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-02-11"
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last_action: "2025-10-13"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8757d7b-3b48-4a58-910f-120315db7e1c"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542"
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source_hash: "9447824b8681d7bef9c7757892524481cfa7a51f932263d9a3ed2f8f82663c68"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 542 (20252026) — Continuation schools and classes: youth workforce development programs.
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Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to fix the length of the schoolday for grades and classes of the schools maintained by the school district, subject to certain conditions and requirements. Under existing law, in continuation high schools and continuation education classes, a day of attendance is 180 minutes of attendance and a pupil is prohibited from being credited with more than 15 hours of attendance per school week, proportionately reduced for those school weeks having weekday holidays on which classes are not held.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/11/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542&version=20250AB54299INT)
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2. **02/26/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542&version=20250AB54298AMD)
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3. **04/03/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542&version=20250AB54297AMD)
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4. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542&version=20250AB54296AMD)
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5. **06/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542&version=20250AB54295AMD)
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6. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542&version=20250AB54293CHP)
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7. **AB542** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542)
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8. **09/10/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB542&version=20250AB54294ENR)
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## Votes
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- Special Consent AB542 Celeste Rodriguez — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 542 Celeste Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 542 Celeste Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments By LOWENTHAL — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Celeste Rodriguez — primary (person)
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- Alanis — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
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- **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-02-27** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-20** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2065.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-18** Referred to Coms. on ED. and APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-14** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2025-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2521.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3033.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 696, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8757d7b-3b48-4a58-910f-120315db7e1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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